Can you expand an enveloped object without expanding paths?

Is there a way to expand an enveloped object without expanding the paths of the object? For example, if I use Envelope Distort>Make With Mesh to distort a group of objects. Can I expand the object after it has been distorted without having to expand the paths of the individual objects that make up the disorted group?

I've attached some very simple example images to, hopefully, further clarify. The first image is a circle with a thick stroke applied. The second is the circle with distortion applied via a simple mesh. The third is the expanded distorted image. In the third image, the stroke has also been expanded to a filled shape.   The grouped objects that I'm dealing with were created with a Wacom tablet using a 6D brush, and I want to be able to expand the envelope without expanding the strokes into filled objects. While it's certainly possible to just delete the expanding strokes and then reapply the brush to each object, I have some illustrations that I'd like to distort that are made up of a considerable number of objects, so manually going through and deleting the filled expanded strokes and then reapply the brush to each shape would be somewhat time-consuming.

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